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Arcade, Wyoming Co.,N.Y.
The Postmaster has handed me this (circular In¬ quiry Concerning the "Underground Railroad") request¬ ing that I reply. He is younger. There were a good (1) y number here who fe(l)t friendly to the fugitives. But only three 8c their families, that I know of, that took an active part in helping them along. I named them to you. C. 0. Shepard, E. N. Waldo & R. W. Lyman. About 1st March 1850 a slave woman was brought to my house & in a drygoods box from near Washington. D. C. &
on the 5th May 1850 she there gave birth to a son, who is now, as I suppose, living in Cleveland, Ohio. A daughter-— Eliza who accompanied^her Mother in^the box married respectably, a barber in Warsaw N. Y., now lives
there, has 5 promising children. I think the husband's
m name is W Beryet.
I lived here in 1860 (before & since) I visited friends in Mt Morris Liv(ingston?) Cq .about that time. (36 miles east of here Mt. Morris is). There was a ftalmily from the south vlsltin[g3 there at the same time. They had a man slave.
Upon inquiry of him he told me he wanted to be free. I helped him toftjls place, intending to help him along to Canada if need be. He stara over night. In the morning he was missing. I

Arcade, Wyoming Co.,N.Y.
The Postmaster has handed me this (circular In¬ quiry Concerning the "Underground Railroad") request¬ ing that I reply. He is younger. There were a good (1) y number here who fe(l)t friendly to the fugitives. But only three 8c their families, that I know of, that took an active part in helping them along. I named them to you. C. 0. Shepard, E. N. Waldo & R. W. Lyman. About 1st March 1850 a slave woman was brought to my house & in a drygoods box from near Washington. D. C. &
on the 5th May 1850 she there gave birth to a son, who is now, as I suppose, living in Cleveland, Ohio. A daughter-— Eliza who accompanied^her Mother in^the box married respectably, a barber in Warsaw N. Y., now lives
there, has 5 promising children. I think the husband's
m name is W Beryet.
I lived here in 1860 (before & since) I visited friends in Mt Morris Liv(ingston?) Cq .about that time. (36 miles east of here Mt. Morris is). There was a ftalmily from the south vlsltin[g3 there at the same time. They had a man slave.
Upon inquiry of him he told me he wanted to be free. I helped him toftjls place, intending to help him along to Canada if need be. He stara over night. In the morning he was missing. I